I have updated the bios and downloaded the current drivers but the drives can
still not be recognized.
"Rick Rogers" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The A8V uses two different raid controllers. One is the promise controller,
> the other is from VIA. Have you downloaded Asus' driver for that sata drive
> set yet? You will need it in order for Vista to see any sata drive on that
> set of connectors.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Scuba" <Scuba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:393DFF9B-AF64-430D-A3EC-594D26BF89D5@microsoft.com...
> >I have just loaded vista on an AMD Anthlon 64 FX-55 with 2 QB of ram and an
> > A8V Deluxe motherboard.
> >
> > Vista recognizes my boot drive and my two of my drives that are raid'd.
> > There is one drive that I used for back-up and was reconized with no
> > issues
> > under XP.
> >
> > I went and downloaded the most current drivers from Promise...it is a
> > promise fasttrac 378.
> >
> > I loaded from a floppy during installation.
> >
> > During boot-up I can see where all drives are recognized but when I get to
> > Vista, The one drive can not be seen from the "My computer" window.
> >
> > Under the hardware devices , storage controllers, I have:
> >
> > Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
> > VIA VT8237 RAID Controller
> > Windows Promise RAID Console SCSI Processor Device
> > WinXP Promise FastTrac 378 Controller
> >
> > At a loss on this one.
>
>